"Considering we are exactly a week on from the Brexit referendum, and subsequent market panic, the fact that the FTSE has climbed all the way above 6500 for the first time since last August is staggering.

"The index was propelled to this 10ish month high by the promise of stimulus, including a rate cut, from the Bank of England.

"Understandably this news wasn’t greeted with unanimous cheer; cable (the dollar/pound exchange), which had been teasing $1.35, plunged to $1.32 during Carney’s speech."